Leading IT distributor for sub-Sahara Africa, Bitrate introduced the hyperconvergence software vendor, Maxta to its portfolio of emerging and disruptive technological offerings. The addition of Maxta enables Bitrate reseller partners to help customers eliminate the capital and operational expense of legacy storage architectures with an innovative and differentiated hyperconverged solution.Read More…
Guest written by: Haider Salloum, SMB Director, Microsoft Gulf Technology has had an undeniably profound effect on the way business in the Gulf region is conducted. Artificial intelligence, machine-learning, 3D-printing, big data, virtualisation, mobility and cloud – all have helped shape a bright new landscape. These technologies have been aroundRead More…
Guest written by Ashraf Sheet, Regional Director MEA at Infoblox.Read More…
The Presales Director for Emerging Markets and LATAM at Veeam Software, Alexey Strygin bursts the myrgs around business critical application virtualisation to ensure business is always-On.Read More…
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, used its participation at Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) 2015 to sign three new distribution partnerships.Read More…
Ash Ashutosh, founder & CEO at Actifio discusses the advantages enterprises in the region can derive from strategic marriage of flash storage and virtualised dataRead More…
emt Distribution, today announced that its education and training arm, emt Academy has tied up with Australian’s leading university, Charles Sturt University (CSU) to offer free online course for its preferred channel partner on virtualisation from this month.Read More…
Citrix has announced the acquisition of Sanbolic, an innovator in workload-oriented storage virtualisation technologies for an undisclosed amount. According to the VDI solutions vendor, Sanbolic technology enables customers to software define storage to optimise the delivery of application-specific workloads, from any media type including SSD, Flash and hard drives inRead More…
Channel Post spoke to Trevor Dearing, Gigamon’s EMEA Marketing Director, to find out how 2014 looks for his company.Read More…
Ash Ashutosh, Founder & CEO at Actifio
Leading new age storage vendor, Actifio announced that it has been chosen as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies for 2012. Actifio’s Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) is a single, virtualised storage system for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and test/development, delivering instant access to information at 90 percent lower cost than the traditional tools. Actifio PAS optimises the management of copies of data, by capturing data once and re-using it for multiple applications, eliminating backup software and its associated backup and restore windows, individual point tools for replication, and test and development.Read More…
Innosoft Gulf announced the availability of the advanced Red Hat Administration courses and certifications in its training center in the Dubai. The curriculum for this training and certification includes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, Red Hat Certified Virtualisation Administrator, Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management, Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam. These advanced virtualisation and clustering courses are designed to train experienced Linux system administrators, with Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)-level competency, in the skills required to deploy and centrally manage virtual servers and virtual desktops in the enterprise. Read More…
HP announced that Jordan based Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), part of APM Terminals’ global terminal network, has virtualised its main data center with HP Converged Infrastructure to guard against loss of critical data and keep services available.
The highly available new IT environment with off-site disaster recovery has quadrupled ACT’s system performance while reducing costs, and is considered the ideal model for virtualisation. “ACT is always looking to update its secure, reliable IT environment to ensure the highest levels of service. The new HP infrastructure automates previously manual tasks and simplifies management, which means we spend less time on maintenance.” said Munther Dweik, IT Manager for Aqaba Container Terminal.Read More…
